Upgrade 18.06.4 to 19.07: what to look out for?

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi.

Not my first upgrade but this time I have two issues which are new:

  1. a bug I had marked for "later attention"
  2. a USB stick used to avoid wearing out the internal flash

For the second point, I guess it's no big deal since I'm NOT using extroot, it's just an external storage for bwmon and the like.

With respect to no.1, what should I do to avoid trouble?

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LuCI bug 2816 was simply a LuCI file transfer problem during file upload, nothing really difficult to spot/avoid. But you are right, that bug exists in specifically 18.06.4 and may affect sysupgrade. (For others: the bug does not exist in the earlier 18.06.(0-3) versions, and also not in 18.06.5/.6 where it was already fixed)

Three options of sysupgrading from 18.06.4 in growing difficulty: :wink:

  • Simply check the SHA256 at the LuCI confirmation screen that it matches the expected value (like always with every sysupgrade...)
  • Avoid LuCI in sysupgrade from 18.06.4. Transfer file manually to /tmp and use ssh console for sysupgrade
  • opkg upgrade liblucihttp and liblucihttp-lua so that you have the fixed version 2019-07-05 instead of the buggy 2019-06-05

And in general, the bug materializes rarely, as it requires that a combination of a binary combination 0D 0A (CR LF) happens just at the http file transfer MIME packet boundary. The probability of hitting it is maybe firmware size 7000000 * 1/65536 * number of http mime packets 7000 (?) = a few percents.
Most users will never hit that bug.

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Went with the standard procedure, no issues.
Thanks.